Ep 647 - Responsibilities Of The Blessed Families For The Firm Settlement Of Cheon Il Guk Part 3
Responsibilities of Blessed Families for the Firm Settlement of Cheon Il Guk - August 3, 2022
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Key Points
When dealing with God or with anyone, I should treat them like a happy dog would with a really friendly wag of the tail in any circumstance.
What is human being’s greatest wish? To capture God’s love.
How? Be convinced he exists, know he is my parent, know and experience his circumstances, wishes and heart, and liberate his han.
Our top priorities are to fulfill the 3 Great Blessings and HTM and to build Cheon Il Guk.
The completion of the spirit body is ultimately achieved when God‘s love is finally captured.
For the sake of the completion of the spirit body, the greatest task that fallen man must overcome is completely mastering the body in front of the mind and establishing the standard of being victorious.
My own body in which Satan resides is Satan.
Father says before dominating the cosmos you need to first dominate yourself.
When you master your body, your spirit has dignity.
The Day of Victory of Love is the course in which everything should be digested by love, embraced by love, and won by love. Only by love.
True Parents had to set the standards of the Day of the Victory of Love that declared loving God and all humankind more than their own beloved child by not shedding any tears.
Jacob, Jesus and True Parents walked the path of the Day of the Victory of Love.
Jesus could not go to the spiritual world and settle down. He had to come back to call together his scattered disciples and embrace them and teach and guide them.
When you have a very difficult time, you need to declare the Day of the Victory of Love after you overcome it with love.
My couple must live and go on the course of the sacrifice of love and set the standards by which everything should be digested by love, embraced by love, and forgiven and won by love in all our relationships.
We who are on the course of the Victory of Love, form a relationship with Heavenly Parent by offering a bow to Him every morning and carry that heart and respect into all our relationships during the day.
In the Era of Cheon Il Guk, we live a life of treating each and every day preciously and with value like the Lord’s day and the Sabbath.
We must truly exalt each other like God. And by digesting everything, understanding, forgiving, and overcoming with love, we must become people who are victorious with love.
I am really having a good time with my family members, especially with my grandchildren. Thank you for your beautiful support and prayers.
Today I’d like to talk about “Responsibilities of Blessed Families for the Firm Settlement of Cheon Il Guk” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Throughout your lives what would you like to be proud of in front of Heaven? Frankly I think that there are not many people who have lived their whole lives with hearts saying, “Thank you. I will develop more,” even when they were in the midst of difficult environments. The animal called a “sheep” is an animal that lives 100 percent for others and is the most gentle of the animals God created. Much of the blood of sheep has been offered as sacrifices. That is because sheep are clean and gentle and do not assert themselves. They follow their owner saying, “Thank you.” But cows or other animals are not like that. Seeing that, we must learn from it. Learning even through the logic of nature, my family must become sound. (2015.03.07, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said, “The animal called a ‘sheep’ is an animal that lives 100 percent for others and is the most gentle of the animals God created. Much of the blood of sheep has been offered as sacrifices. That is because sheep are clean and gentle and do not assert themselves. They follow their owner saying, ‘Thank you.’”
Those of you who have had pets know this well, but they teach us many lessons. My favorite pet animal is a dog. In the past in Korea, when keeping a dog, we didn’t raise them inside the house but usually raised them outside the house.
What I experienced from having a dog when I was young was that my dog always greeted me joyfully and was very loyal to me. When I came home from school, my dog somehow knew the time I was coming beforehand and always came to greet me. And as soon as he saw me, he came to hug me and wagged his tail so much; he was so happy!
Regardless of whether I was in a good or bad mood, that dog was always happy to see me. Even if I became angry, yelled at him, and walked away, if I called him, he would always come back, running joyfully. When I saw such a dog, I always thought that that dog was better than I was.
It did not matter whether I was in a good mood or bad mood, it always showed me the same attitude.
How can I have that same kind of alignment to God and True Parents and that kind of heart towards my own family members or toward anyone? It does not matter whether you have a good or bad mood, you always show a grateful heart and always make (others) happy. This is really amazing. When I raised that dog, I always thought that that dog was better than I was.
People treat each other differently depending on their mood, and their facial expression changes. However, dogs always treats their owner unchangingly and joyfully. So, what I thought of was that when I was dealing with God or with anyone, I should treat people like a such happy dog would with a really friendly wag of his tail in any circumstance.
It is really beautiful. Animals and the creation can teach us many things.
What is the essence of a blessed family? You were born into blessed families through the True Parents, who were finally able to lead the providential history of restoration through indemnity to victory after 6,000 years of human history. Without your connection to True Parents, your existence loses its value. You would be no different from those in outside society. The Blessing is Heaven’s grace and love that has come to humankind after a long wait of 6,000 years. Heavenly Parent could not stop working until you were born. Originally, God created the universe, the creation and finally humankind. God dreamed of realizing big dreams through man.
Adam and Eve, who could have become the first good ancestors, failed to fulfill their responsibilities. They should have united completely with God based on absolute obedience. Adam and Eve were not able to follow this path, and could not avoid the Fall when they began having self-centered thoughts. It is just as crucial for all of you today to avoid thinking in a self-centered way. Only when you can completely focus on and reach oneness in body, oneness in thought, and oneness in harmony with True Parents, can your path be opened to greater blessings. (2016.10.22, CheongPyeong Training Center)
True Mother said Adam and Eve could not avoid the Fall when they began having self-centered thoughts. It is just as crucial for all of you today to avoid thinking in a self-centered way. Only when you can completely focus on and reach oneness in body, oneness in thought, and oneness in harmony with True Parents, can your path be opened to greater blessings.
In the end, in our path of faith, if we make a mistake of self assertion, upholding ourselves, and becoming self-centered, we become further away from God. That was what happened to Adam and Eve and that was the reason central figures of the Providence failed as well.
And when looking at our movements’ senior members, we can see that in the end, some became self-centered, allowing Satan to enter and they became Satan’s tool. Since any fallen person, including myself, have that possibility, we must always train ourselves to be humble and deny ourselves.
Since self-centered faith can always suddenly appear in some way and might betray God, it is very scary. This is because Satan is not someone else but it could be me.
That is why we should not easily criticize senior members: “Why are they like that? He has attended True Parents for such a long time, but in the end why did he betray them?” Before criticizing let’s reflect about ourself first all the time: “I also could be like that.”
Whenever you see that kind of situation, treat (that person’s) sin as your own sin, his problem as your own problem. “I could also be like that.”
Then when you really humble yourself and reflect on yourself, you should be strongly determined: “Heavenly Father, I don’t want to be that kind of person.” If you have that kind heart with humility, you can avoid that kind of problem.
(People with such problems) are always self-centered. Anyone who creates a different denomination and goes their own way and betrays (True Parents), you need to check their motivation. Most of them are, first, very self-centered, secondly, very arrogant, not humble. That is why our life of faith needs to begin from a humble heart. This is really important.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 60 - The Development, Perfection, and Features of the Spirit Self
• It is not God who decides whether a person's spirit enters heavenor hell upon his death; it is decided by the spirit himself.
• Humans are created so that once they reach perfection they will fully breathe the love of God. Those who committed sinful deeds while on earth become crippled spirits who are incapable of fully breathing in the love of God. They find it agonizing to stand before God, the center of true love, and choose to dwell in hell of their own will.
• Since the human spirit can grow only in the soil of the physical self, the multiplication of human spirits takes place at the same time that the multiplication of physical selves occurs: during earthly life.
Let’s study Father’s word.
What is the Aim of Desire?
<39-210> What is the aim of the heart, in other words what is the aim of desire? It is to capture God’s love. Even if you capture God, if there is another kind of love within God that you fail to capture, God does not belong to you. Therefore, you must capture the love of God. If you have that love, even if God is not with you, you will be alright. When His belongings become yours, and your belongings become His, at last, within and without, you will become one. If you lay in that position, there will be no existence in the whole world that will not appear good to you. You will feel that there is nothing in the world that does not exist for you. The Kingdom of Heaven is the place that is full of the love of Heaven.
What is human being’s greatest wish? In other words, when do human beings’ desires end and become completely fulfilled? True Father said that that (wish) is to capture God’s love.
In order to capture God’s love, it does not end on the level of simply believing in God, and it is also not on the level of having the conviction that God and I have a parent child relationship.
Then what must we do to capture God‘s love? First, we need the absolute conviction that God exists and we must understand that God and I have a parent child relationship. Secondly, we have to know God‘s circumstances, wishes, and heart. And then we have to experience all of them.
Thirdly, knowing God‘s circumstance, wishes and heart, we must liberate God’s han caused by the human fall. In order to do that I must have the capabilities and actual achievements of true love to touch God’s heart so that God cannot help but to come and find me.
That is why true father said that if God makes me a god whom He cannot help but love and can never be separated from, that is where we capture God’s love.
Then what is the thing we must put as top priority? It is the path of fulfilling the three great blessings that God desires. And it is going on the path of filial sons and daughters by fulfilling the HTM mission, and on that foundation, establishing Cheon Il Guk which God desires.
Know that the completion of the spirit body is ultimately achieved when God‘s love is finally captured.
You Must Conquer Satan Before you can go to Heaven
<65-294> Mastering my own body is the same thing as rooting out and conquering Satan. You can only go to Heaven after conquering Satan. You cannot win over Satan outside of your body. This is because any trouble that occurs within the body must also be restored within the body. If you cannot finish the things that you have to do on the Earth, you will eternally go to Hell. Therefore, if you can bring victory in your body, and come to stand on the good side of Heaven, you will eternally go to Heaven.
For the sake of the completion of the spirit body, the greatest task that fallen man must overcome is completely mastering the body in front of the mind and establishing the standard of being victorious.
However, since my body has become the house of Satan where Satan resides, even Satan must be completely eradicated and conquered. In that sense, it is not somebody else that is the enemy and Satan. My own body in which Satan resides is Satan.
True Father said that you can only go to Heaven after conquering Satan. But he also said that you cannot win over Satan outside of your body.
This is because any trouble that occurs within the body must also be restored within the body.
For this reason, the completion of the spirit body is ultimately mastering the body. True Father warns us that if we cannot finish the things that we have to do on earth, we will eternally go to hell.
Very scary. I came to realize there is no need to talk about Satan or the enemy. Why? My body is my enemy. Who is Satan? My body is Satan. That’s why if you really conquer and control your body, that is the way to win over Satan, to win over your enemy. Your enemy of enemies is your body, right? Who is your Satan? Not your wife, your husband, your children, or someone who hates you. Your number one enemy, number one Satan, is your body. That is the issue.
If you really conquer your body with your spirit and heart, then you are already a great person actually. This is not a simple matter. If someone is looking at you or checking on you, it does not matter. Even when you are alone, do not commit sin, even in thinking.
You need to have dignity because you can master your body. Then you can respect yourself. Your spirit (becomes) very dignified.
Even myself, every day I need to challenge (myself). This is not a simple matter to conquer the physical body, right?
That is why Father always says before dominating the cosmos you need to first dominate yourself. Yourself means what? You need to really dominate your body very well. That is why there is no need to talk about another enemy or Satan. My body always becomes Satan and lives the wrong way. How we handle our physical body well is our issue and our task.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Fruiting Season of Love
Now is the Time We Must Bear the Fruits of Love
1. Now is the time we must bear the fruits of love. It must become the substance of love which God can be present. God’s wish was for Adam and Eve to become perfected and set out with true love as the eternal true parents. In the Providence of Restoration, in order to resolve the complicated entanglements due to the human Fall, True Father came to indemnity everything, gain victory through love, and establish the ideal of families on this earth. True Father used the term “Day of Victory of Love” with Heung-jin Nim’s seonghwa, but it actually goes back to Jacob’s time. Jacob was victorious in the 21-year course, overcame death, and triumphed in wresting with an angel, and received the name “Israel.” That was the time of establishing the standards for the day of Victory of Love on the formation stage level. Next, the hill of the growth stage Day of Victory of Love was overcome with Jesus’ victory of the cross, and in the age of completion, the final Day of Victory of Love was welcomed through the ascension of Heung-jin Nim in True Parents’ family.
Now is the time we must bear the fruits of love. It is the path we must go on while being victorious through love in all the indemnity and hardships of the past. Now is the time when we have to go on with the Day of Victory of Love that even brings enemies to natural surrender. The Day of Victory of Love is a course that remains for everyone in which everything should be digested by love, embraced by love, and won by love. Only by love.
This is the era of love. We are entering God’s completion. We need to overcome in the name of love. I really admire Father’s life when he offered Heungjin nim without tears. It is an incredible victory. He really won everything by love. That is why he proclaimed the Day of the Victory of Love.
We need to overcome any problem, any issue. Already the era of indemnity is over. Then how can we overcome? There is no need to use the way of indemnity. Now we need to use the way of love. Heungjin Nim and True Parents showed us what is the Day of the Victory of Love.
Therefore the question is how can we go on the path of the day of victory of love? In order to welcome this age of bearing the fruits of love, true parents had to indemnify the past 6,000 years of history with love and be victorious.
In other words in order for True Parents to welcome this age of love, they had to walk on the path of the day a victory of love. While walking on this path of the day a victory of love, many people walked on the course of a sacrifice.
The final day of victory of love that True Father had shown to the whole world was Heung-Jin Nim’s Seonghwa. True Parents said that as they offered Heungjin Nim as a sacrifice, in order to set the standard of offering him to Heaven with joy and gratitude, they could not shed tears. True Parents had to set the standards of the Day of Victory of Love that declared loving God and all humankind more than their own beloved child.
Wow! Father overcame by love. That is why when he offered Heungjin Nim, Father proclaimed the Day of the Victory of Love. He overcame by love. It is really amazing, right?
In the Old Testament age, Jacob walked on that path of the day of victory of love, and in the New Testament age, Jesus walked on the path of the Day of Victor of Love while being crucified.
When I think of Jesus’ crucifixation, always tears come down. He overcame by love. He embraced his enemy and forgave his enemy with love. He forgave all humankind. He embraced all humankind with his love. He was a man of victory, a man of love. He showed us what the quality of true love is.
That’s why when we talk about the Day of the Victory of Love, Jacob showed that beautiful way in the Old Testament Era and Jesus showed that way in the New Testament Era. Finally as we welcome the Completed Testament Age, True Parents walked on the final path of the Day of the Victory of Love by offering Heungjin Nim as a living sacrifice. Because of Heungjin Nim’s sacrifice, we gained many things. True Parents overcame and paid all kinds of indemnity because of Heungjin Nim’s Seonghwa.
In the era of the Completed Testament Age whenever you (make an) offering, it is not by the way of indemnity. You need to offer by the way of love. That is why Father said, “I cannot cry. I cannot show my tears.” This is really amazing. Even Jesus when he was crucified on the cross, how painful it was, it was so painful. But he worried about God’s will and the Israeli people, about the future of all humankind and of his disciples. Then he overcame with true love. Even Satan could not accuse (him).
God gave him the opportunity to come back and resurrect and call all his scattered disciples. Jesus could not go to the spiritual world and settle down. He had to come back to call together his scattered disciples and embrace them and teach and guide them. I really admire Jesus. He had enough qualifications to become the Messiah.
When I see our True Parents offering our Heungjin nim, it is an incredible victory. That is why we need to know the background of Father’s proclamation of the Day of the Victory of Love.
Each of Us Must Welcome the Day of Victory of Love
2. By the virtue of True Parents, the history of indemnity has been liquidated and we have become liberated sons and daughters. Now, we each only have to bear the fruits of love. Each of us must welcome the day of Victory of Love centered on ourselves. Through love, I must welcome the Day of Victory of Love. I have to welcome the Day of Victory of Love by winning with love, starting not from anyone else, but from myself. We who had been under Satan’s dominion were in the position of fallen human beings, but now that we have received dominion from True Parents, we are already in the position of being liberated from the fallen state. Therefore, who you form relationships with is important. If you look at human life, we live with parent-child relationships, sibling relationships, and husband and wife relationships. In school, there’s the relationship with the teacher, and at work, there’s the relationship between superiors and subordinates. When you live with good relationships, there can be no anguish or sadness. But if you ignore the relationship, you will be miserable.
Now, on the foundation of True Parents’ victory in the course of the Victory of Love, each of us must welcome the Day of the Victory of Love centered on ourselves.
Did you have that experience? You need to have your own Day of Victory of Love. You and I need to have it. When you have a very difficult time, you need to declare the Day of the Victory of Love after you overcome it.
I have to welcome the Day of Victory of Love by winning with love, starting not from anyone else, but from myself.
Now is the age when I live and directly become the sacrifice of Love. And my couple must live and go on the course of the sacrifice of love. We must set the standards by which everything should be digested by love, embraced by love, and forgiven and won by love.
Therefore, there is still a path of Victory of Love through which I have to go being victorious with love through parent-child relationships, sibling relationships, husband and wife relationships, relationships with teachers at school, and relationships with superiors and subordinates at work, centering on myself.
Success or Failure Depends on How Relationships are Formed
3. We form a relationship with Heavenly Parent by offering a bow to Him everyday. In the Era of Cheon Il Guk, we live a life of treating each and every day preciously and with value like the Lord’s day and the Sabbath. However, if the standards are vague and we do not have a relationship with God, it will result in killing ourselves, just as Adam and Eve died after eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. A person who ignores relationships easily become exhausted and their heart is lowered. It is like they are killing themselves. When someone falls into the water and drowns, it is not the water that killed them. They die because they were unable to dominate the water. When I go into the water, it is one of two things: I either dominate the water or I am dominated by the water, that is, my body either floats or it sinks. Likewise, in the course of faith, if you dominate yourself, you will be victorious, and if you are dominated, you will fail.
We who are on the course of the Victory of Love, form a relationship with Heavenly Parent by offering a bow to Him every day. In the Era of Cheon Il Guk, we live a life of treating each and every day preciously and with value like the Lord’s day and the Sabbath.
Every day we kyumbei to True Parents, bow to Heavenly Parent and True Parents. We need to have that kind of heart and love and respect toward our own brothers and sisters, toward our parents, toward our Abel. That is why every morning we practice.
Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother don’t need to receive my bow. But I need to do it. I do my bow to Heavenly Parent and True Parents. I need to keep that kind of dignity and respect and apply it to my relationships with my brothers and sisters, with my Cain and my Abel, and my parents.
I really love our church tradition of the kyungbei, of respect and bowing. “I respect you. I love you.” I keep this heart and mind and want to apply it to my own brothers and sisters, my own family members, my own neighbor. How beautiful a tradition this is. Now is the era of attendance, attending God. We need to use the same method toward our own brothers and sisters. I need to attend them like God.
If we are unable to form relationships with the standard of waking up in the morning and offering a bow to God, then (our life) becomes ambiguous. Since people who form relationships horizontally ignore the other person, they easily become exhausted and their heart is lowered. In the end, it is like they are ignoring and killings themselves.
When someone falls into the water and drowns, it is not the water that kills them. They die because they were unable to dominate the water.
When I go into the water, it is one of two things: whether I dominate the water or am dominated by the water that is, my body either floats or it sinks. Likewise, in the course of faith, if you dominate yourself, you will be victorious, and if you are dominated, you will fail.
That is why our destiny is to overcome no matter what. If we don’t overcome, it becomes a big problem. Our destiny is to win no matter what. We need to be victorious.
The Reason Human Beings Make Mistakes
4. In the end, human beings make mistakes in everything because they ignore relationships and do not raise their values. Those who value relationships live, and those who ignore relationships become exhausted and gradually become dry and pressed. It is not because of others, but it is the result of abandoning one’s own love. It is like I am abandoning my own peace, hope, and strength on my own. We only need to grow. We only need to raise the standard of value.
In the end, human beings make mistakes in everything because they ignore relationships and do not raise their values. Those who value relationships live, and those who ignore relationships become exhausted and gradually become dry and pressed.
In conclusion, the reason we fear and exalt God is to maintain such a relationship when dealing with others. Those who exalt and value others will come to exalt themselves. But ignoring relationships results in abandoning our own love. It is like I am abandoning my own peace, hope, and strength on my own.
Now that we are in the season of the fruition of love, we must truly exalt each other like God. And by digesting everything, understanding, forgiving, and overcoming with love, we must become people who are victorious with love.
Now is the era of love, of heart. Everything is digested by love and heart. Everything we need to overcome by love and heart. I think today’s message is very beautiful.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Yuki Watabe, CARP, How his attitude and heart have changed through witnessing)♦
(Response to sharing) Becoming a mother is not a simple matter. You need to have a lot of patience. That is why children make us into parents. We need to be grateful (for this).♦
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